La Compagnie du Sénégal

"Welcome reprint of unsurpassed study of the first French slave trading company in West Africa (1673-96). Company attempted to challenge the de facto Dutch monopolistic supply to the French islands. Documents company's activities in the context of early transatlantic trade, the variety of traded items, and organization of trading posts; and shows that chronic shortage of capital led to the company's downfall and its replacement by privileges in slave trade granted to main Atlantic ports in early-18th century"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.